<p>Hey!</p>
<p>My name is Sean, and I am currently an American double degree student in the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Music here at McGill. If you have any questions about McGill, especially about its extra-curricular and artistic offerings do ask me, I'm involved with a good amount of on-goings here and would love to answer any questions you may have about perhaps what you would like to get involved in here. Also, I'm very familiar with Montr</p>
<p>Hey Sean...wanted to let you know that I thought you were ahhmazing in HMS Pinafore :)</p>
<p>Hey thanks! I'm glad that you came to see the show :)
I would love to see you perform sometime, I know you were in my Counterpoint class first semester- but I don't think I ever got the chance of meeting you.<br>
So I hope we do soon!</p>
<p>Any idea if there is intramural baseball on campus? If so, how competitive is it?</p>
<p>Sports at McGill are not as competitive as in the States... although it is probably the most "American" like Campus in Canada its Athletics programs do not compare to that of the US.<br>
Intramurals although are popular here, they sprout up everywhere. Within Faculties, Residences, Clubs etc. Hockey is extremely popular, as is Rugby and mostly any winter type sport. (Yes, go Canada!) Varsity teams do exsist, and I do believe they do recruit- although not to the level that American schools do.
Last summer McGill had over a dozen students at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens! That's pretty impressive if you ask me.</p>
<p>If you want info on the Sports Teams and Athletics programs check out athletics.mcgill.ca</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply.</p>
<p>How competitive are the ice hockey intramural teams? I'd love to play again but I haven't put skates on in four or five years and I'm probably terrible now...</p>
<p>hiiiiiiii can i im you on aim? conversations are easier there.</p>
<p>of course... my contacts are above</p>
<p>Sean - I have a daughter who has won statewide competitions in classical voice and wants to do a B.Mus. in vocal performance at a top academic university. She's looking at Northwestern, Rice, Yale (no B.Mus., but a five-year BA/MM option), but we never talked about McGill. From their website, it appears that B.Mus. students do all but 24 credits of their coursework in Music and that the annual tuition (converted for the exchange rate) is about US$10,100. Does that sound right? How much is room, board and other fees? Is financial aid available for Americans? Is the setting huge and anonymous, or do you feel as connected as you would at a medium-sized U.S. university? Is living the college life in Montreal as incredible for an American student as it would seem to be?</p>
<p>Hey Sean.. i just got accepted to mcgill last month and i have loads of queries and questions, i have added u on msn..</p>
<p>laterz</p>
<p>for gadad:</p>
<p>It is a relatively large music school, but you should have continuity and personal interaction with your music instructors, unlike the large lecture classes.</p>
<p>There is very little money available for scholarships at McGill. McGill is a bargain for the list price. They should raise the tuition for non-Canadians and maintain the buildings better IMO. All the schools you listed are private schools; McGill is government-supported and the condition of the facilities will not compare IMO. </p>
<p>For what you are describing, also look into Carnegie Mellon, Case Western/CIM, and Indiana U.</p>
<p>I have visited McGill 3 times, applied there, and know students from my HS there; I feel it is a bit more of a city-living experience than a college experience from an American's viewpoint.</p>
<p>hey buggzz i cant belive i got accepted..
my msn is <a href="mailto:nmknba@hotmail.com...hit">nmknba@hotmail.com...hit</a> me up</p>
<p>McGill's music program is excellent, one of the best in North America.
I'm a B.Mus student in the Vocal Performance/Opera Studies area.<br>
The faculty is superb, excellent vocalists and technicians. It's not often that you find a UNIVERSITY with an excellent music program, especially world universities. McGill is certainly one, and I would highly recommend it. Just to give you a background of my college prospective days: I applied to several schools including Oberlin, Boston University, Brown University, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, Northwestern, and Sarah Lawrence and was accepted to them all. What I really wanted was the best of both worlds, a liberal arts education with an amazing music education as well. McGill certainly had the best of it all. Oberlin, BU, Northwestern, and University of Michigan are four schools that have excellent music and liberal arts programs... but for me the last straw was the city of Montreal. It's amazing, it's a cosmopolitan dreamscape. The arts are certainly important here and there is always something to do. McGill is one of the few schools that still maintains an Early Music/Church Music program (and Montreal's early music scene is one of the best in N.A. if that interests you.) It's also incredibly affordable, to us Americans its a BARGAIN. At McGill as a music major you can take as many credits in other faculties as you wish, declaring a double major and minor is certainly possible and a lot of people do it. You can also earn a double degree with two faculties- which you apply for after your first year.
The Faculty of Music puts on over 650 concerts a year, and features hundreds of guest artists and many festivals are held here. The theory/history/musicianship program is one of the most demanding and intense programs of any music school and a graduate from McGill leaves with a mastering of a good musician.<br>
If you have any questions about the program or about McGill in general you can contact me. G'luck to your daughter. :)</p>
<p>Rideltrain - Thank you for the very thorough and thoughtful response! This is unreal - after two years of monitoring CC, you're the first student I've found who sounds like a mirror image of my D. She's a very accomplished soprano who wants a Voice / Opera major, but she's also very committed academically. She'd love to double major, but doesn't want to shortchange her passion for voice. She'd like a cosmopolitan college experience, but a real college experience - not a conservatory. And many of the schools to which you applied are at the top of her list - esp. Northwestern. I'll ask her about McGill, and if she shows interest, I'll suggest she contact you. BTW, Brown seems like an anomaly among the schools to which you applied - it's renowned in theatre, but as far as I know, has no particular music reputation. What led you to consider it among all the music performance powerhouses?</p>
<p>hey Rideltrain, what can you tell me about the engineering school over there at mcgill?</p>
<p>the engineering program seems pretty intense... it has a huge international base, and the engineering faculty certainly has the most unity of any faculty at mcgill. their undergraduate society is pretty cool since they run a bunch of awesome student run enterprises.
I don't know much about the program in terms of how it ranks to others, but I'm sure its one of the best.</p>
<p>hey there.
Not sure what you know about it, but what is the outdoors club like at McGill. I know they do stuff like rock climbing and such, which I'm into.</p>
<p>When I came up for my tour, my guide said that the school had plans to build a climbing wall somewhere but that it had already been put off for a year. Any idea?</p>